Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.
CHARLES DARWINWhat a book a devil’s chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!
More Charles Darwin Quotes
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Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.
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I ought, or I ought not, constitute the whole of morality.
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Such simple instincts as bees making a beehive could be sufficient to overthrow my whole theory.
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The willing horse is always overworked.
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I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.
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The very essence of instinct is that it’s followed independently of reason.
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If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty.
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How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
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Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.
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It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
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Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
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Much love much trial, but what an utter desert is life without love.
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Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.
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Man scans with scrupulous care the character and pedigree of his horses, cattle, and dogs before he matches them; but when he comes to his own marriage he rarely, or never, takes any such care.
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
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The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognise that we ought to control our thoughts.
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The more one thinks, the more one feels the hopeless immensity of man’s ignorance.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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What wretched doings come from the ardor of fame; the love of truth alone would never make one man attack another bitterly.
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The normal food of man is vegetable.
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It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
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Sympathy beyond the confines of man, that is, humanity to the lower animals, seems to be one of the latest moral acquisitions.
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Nothing exists for itself alone, but only in relation to other forms of life.
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Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy of the interposition of a deity. More humble, and I believe truer, to consider him created from animals.
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The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
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